Live facial recognition surveillance ‘must stop’ – UK police and companies must stop using live facial recognition for public surveillance, politicians and campaigners have said. Reddit · 1 day ago
App that cancels subscriptions launches in UK – A service which automatically cancels subscriptions at the end of the free trial period has launched in the UK. Reddit · 3 days ago
Casey Viner: Teenage US gamer jailed over deadly 911 hoax – A US teenager has been jailed for 15 months for involvement in a prank call leading to an innocent man’s death. Reddit · 3 days ago
On the Record: TaskRabbit’s Stacy Brown-Philpot – This past week California voted in a new law designed to pave the way for gig economy workers to become full employees. That’s a massive deal for the companies offering that kind of work. Reddit · 4 days ago
Climate change: Electrical industry’s ‘dirty secret’ boosts warming – It’s the most powerful greenhouse gas known to humanity, and emissions have risen rapidly in recent years, the BBC has learned. Reddit · 5 days ago
YouTube advertises big brands alongside fake cancer cure videos – YouTube’s algorithm promotes fake cancer cures in a number of languages and the site runs adverts for major brands and universities next to misleading videos, a BBC investigation has found. Reddit · 7 days ago
‘Ban kids from loot box gambling in games’ – In-game spending should be regulated by gambling laws and so-called loot boxes banned entirely for children, MPs say. Reddit · 1 week ago
McDonald's is to replace human servers with voice gen in its US drive-throughs Hacker News · 1 week ago
‘Ban all watches from exams to stop cheating’ – All watches should be banned from exam halls to discourage cheating, says an inquiry into the extent of malpractice in exams taken by pupils across the UK. Reddit · 1 week ago
Fake news: BBC and tech firms join forces to fight disinformation – Plans to help tackle so-called "fake news" have been announced by the BBC and some of the biggest names in journalism and technology. Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Unsolicited nudes detected and deleted by AI – Software that can detect and delete unsolicited penis pictures sent via private messages on Twitter is being developed by researchers in Seattle. Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Europe will not accept US verdict on 737 Max safety – Europe’s aviation safety watchdog will not accept a US verdict on whether Boeing’s troubled 737 Max is safe. Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Ku Klux Klan donation account suspended by PayPal – PayPal suspended an account used to raise funds by one of the US’s largest white supremacist groups six days after it was first flagged by an anti-bigotry campaigner. Reddit · 2 weeks ago
US deports foreign student ‘over friends’ social media posts’ – A Palestinian teenager admitted to Harvard says he has been denied entry to the US after officials objected to his friends’ social media posts. Reddit · 3 weeks ago
The thoughts running through our heads are more varied than we might suppose Hacker News · 3 weeks ago
Microsoft says it stopped listening to Xbox recordings to improve tech months ago, but at times reviews recordings between users on reports of TOS violations Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
A look at What3words, a location sharing app that divides the world into 57 trillion three meter squares, and assigns them a unique, random three-word address Techmeme · 1 month ago
‘Fake’ Amazon ambassadors baited on Twitter – Amazon workers praising their working conditions on social media are being accused of lying by other users. Reddit · 1 month ago